What It's Like to Get Through School as a Trans Teen

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        What It's Like to Get Through School as a Trans Teen
    In time for Trans Awareness Week, this short film portrays the reality faced by gender-nonconforming youth.
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          Nov 17, 2018
          
        
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Trans actor (The Danish Girl, Colette) Jake Graf is also a writer and director; his latest project is Listen, a short film about the experience of trans youth. Produced in association with the British trans youth rights organization Mermaids, Listen features real trans teens reenacting the experiences of being out in school. It's a tough five minutes, but the end will lift your spirits. 

        
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